browband

English

A relief on the Arch of Claudius showing helmets with upstanding browbands.

Etymology

brow +‎ band

Noun

browband (plural browbands)

1. Part of a horse's bridle that runs from just under one ear, across the forehead, to just under the other ear, preventing the bridle from sliding down.
2. A band of fur of a contrasting colour on an animal's brow.

   Diana monkeys are generally black or dark grey, but have a white throat, crescent-shaped browband, ruff and beard.

3. A band of metal, part of a (person's) helmet or crown, which covers the brow.
   • 2009, Graham Summer, Raffaele D'Amato, Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier, Frontline Books, →ISBN, page 111:

     Helmet of Buggenum-Montefortino type, from Anatolia, end of the first century AD […] The browband — riveted to the dome on each side — was part of its reinforcing structure, protecting the legionary from direct blows ...

   • 2012, Robert K. Silverberg, Lord Valentine's Castle: Book One of the Majipoor Cycle, Penguin, →ISBN:

     Of course it was nothing to compare with the authentic crown, with its inlays and chasings of seven different precious metals, its finials of rare gems, its three gleaming diniaba-stones mounted on the browband.

Translations

part of horse's bridle

• Finnish: otsahihna, otsapanta
• Hungarian: homlokszíj (hu)